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Why You Should Write That Book

9/26/2016

 
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People are always looking for something new to read.

Millions of people have published a book, or several, and lived to tell the tale.

It creates jobs for publishers, editors, graphic designers, marketers, bookstore clerks, printers, warehouse stockers, truck drivers, and on and on.

Who are you to deprive the world of your work?

The worst case scenario is that nobody will read it, and that's HAPPENING NOW.

Another negative scenario is that someone will criticize it, but you can be criticized anywhere on the Internet or walking down the street for no reason. If it happens, at least it happened because you did something.

Is your unfinished manuscript really what you want to be thinking about on your deathbed?

Aren't you curious what happens in the last chapter?

You can always write it and then choose not to publish it.

You can always write another draft.

You can always publish it under a pen name.

The writing process makes you smarter and improves your writing skills.

Publishing a book is an opportunity to meet new people, people who like books.

Publishing a book is also a great excuse to lock yourself up like a hermit.

Compare it to training for a marathon. If you want an impressive achievement under your belt, which one is easier?

Writing is a much more interesting default behavior than most of the alternatives, such as watching TV or wandering around a shopping mall.

Get it out of the way so you can move forward. Maybe you choose never to write another book, or maybe you love it and you start another one right away. At least you're not stuck in the doorway wondering anymore.

You wouldn't even be thinking about writing a book if you didn't have a story somewhere inside you.

Your story deserves to be told. Your words want to be free.

You are not entitled to be the judge and jury of whether your story should be available to people. It belongs to the world. How dare you lock it away and leave your audience with nothing better to do than to watch reality television?

You are killing literature! You selfish non-writer, you. Where is it? Give it to me!

Start typing because we're out here waiting to find out what you have to say.


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